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- John Bardeen was born on May 23, 1908 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He was married to Jane Maxwell. He died on January 30, 1991 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpouseJane Maxwell(1938 - January 30, 1991) (his death, 3 children)
- Pictured on one of a set of four 41¢ USA commemorative postage stamps in the American Scientists series, issued 6 March 2008. Others honored in the series were Edwin Hubble, Linus Pauling, and biochemist Gerty Cori.
- Won 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for their theory on superconductivity. John Robert Schrieffer was born 31 May 1931, in Oak Park, Illinois and died 27 July 2019, Tallahassee, Florida.
- Won 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with Walter Brattain and William Shockley for "investigations on semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect".
- Theoretical physicist, he is the son of Charles Bardeen, the first dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 3, 1991-1993, pages 42-44. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
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